From 28 February 2025, the Akademie der Künste in Hanseatenweg will be showing the exhibition ‘Ein Dorf 1950 – 2022. Ute Mahler, Werner Mahler und Ludwig Schirmer’, a cross-generational, long-term photographic documentation of the village of Berka in Thuringia.
The exhibition ‘A village 1950 – 2022. Ute Mahler, Werner Mahler and Ludwig Schirmer’ is a long-term project by three photographers and at the same time a family history that highlights aspects of time and change in a special way. The project has its origins in Berka in Thuringia and yet points far beyond the borders of this village. In the 1950s and 1960s, Ludwig Schirmer, Ute Mahler’s father, worked as a master miller in Berka, but photography was his great passion. A few years after …
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Image above: Ludwig Schirmer, aus der Serie Ein Dorf, 1950–1960 © Ludwig Schirmer/OSTKREUZ